Dell PowerVault DX6112 Dell DR Series System Administrator's Guide - Page 27
DR Series Expansion Shelf, Expansion Shelf Licenses
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Drive 0 (top) Drive 1 (middle) Drive 2 (bottom) Drive 3 (top) Drive 4 (middle) Drive 5 (bottom) Drive 6 (top) Drive 7 (middle) Drive 8 (bottom) Drive 9 (top) Drive 10 (middle) Drive 11 (bottom) DR Series Expansion Shelf Each DR Series system appliance supports the installation and connection of up to two Dell PowerVault MD1200 data storage expansion shelf enclosures. Each expansion shelf contains 12 physical disks in an enclosure, which provides additional data storage capacity for the basic DR Series system. The supported data storage expansion shelves can be added in 1 Terabyte (TB), 2 TB, or 3 TB hard drive capacities. The physical disks in each expansion shelf are required to be Dell-certified Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives, and the physical drives in the expansion shelf uses slots 1-11 configured as RAID 6, with slot 0 being a global hot spare (GHS). When being configured, the first expansion shelf is identified as Enclosure 1 (in the case where two enclosures are added, these would be Enclosure 1 and Enclosure 2). Adding an expansion shelf to support the DR Series system requires a license. For more information, see Expansion Shelf Licenses. For more general information about the supported storage enclosures, see support.dell.com/manuals. NOTE: The 300 Gigabyte (GB) drive capacity (2.7 TB) version of the DR Series system does not support the addition of expansion shelf enclosures. NOTE: If you are running a DR4000 system with an installed release of system software prior to 2.0, and you intend to upgrade to release 2.0 system software and install an external expansion shelf (or shelves), Dell recommends that you observe the following best practice sequence of operations to avoid any issues: • Upgrade the DR4000 system with the release 2.0 system software • Power off the DR4000 system (required for 2.0 with Dell OpenManage 7.1) • Connect the external expansion shelf (or shelves) with cabling to the DR4000 system • Power on the external expansion shelf (or shelves) • Power on the DR4000 system NOTE: If you install an expansion shelf enclosure to support a DR Series system, each shelf must use physical disks that have a capacity equal to or greater than each DR Series system internal drive slot capacity (0-11) that they are supporting. Figure 2. DR4100 System Expansion Shelf (MD1200) Drive Slot Locations Drive 0 (top) Drive 1 (middle) Drive 2 (bottom) Drive 3 (top) Drive 4 (middle) Drive 5 (bottom) Drive 6 (top) Drive 7 (middle) Drive 8 (bottom) Drive 9 (top) Drive 10 (middle) Drive 11 (bottom) 27